Ashes to ashes: Burials turning earth friendly

3:56 AM,
May 19, 2010

Art Trimble of Brighton, a member of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Greater Rochester, led the effort to get the newly opened Bluebird Meadow Green Burial section in White Haven Memorial Park in Perinton.

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When it comes time for Art Trimble to go to his final resting place, he has no desire to take toxic chemicals and non-renewable materials along with him.

So Trimble is pleased that White Haven Memorial Park recently became the second cemetery in New York to offer a Green Burial Council-certified green burial section.

Bodies buried in this wildflower meadow at the Perinton cemetery must be placed in a simple shroud or a completely biodegradable coffin without a vault. They may not be embalmed, cremated or treated by any other means that would use toxic chemicals or fossil fuels. No fertilizer or ...